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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories web enablement toolkit
Created by Guest
Created on May 11, 2022

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This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ZOS-I-3309 Request for a conversion code in the Toolkit for COBOL.

Request for a conversion code in the Toolkit for COBOL Merged

We have a zSeries COBOL program using the HTTP z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to act as http client. The program receives a JSON string from the partner system, which is parsed by the toolkit HWTJPARS, then values are extracted using HWTJSRCH. We find that the one of the fields in the JSON payload contains escaped characters -that is, it contains string data including the forward slash character / which is itself escaped with the backslash character \. Example: Data sent by the ASCII server application as Pv+s/2S81WhZyWoyiTNLuA== is being received by the mainframe client as Pv+s\/2S81WhZyWoyiTNLuA== The toolkit appears to be treating the escape character and the escaped character as individual characters, meaning that the above 24 byte string is being passed to the cobol program as a 25 byte string if one of the characters is the forward slash. We would need a way to decode the escape sequences in COBOL. There is a reference in the Knowledge Center to HWTJESCT which appears to say just that, but that appears to be only for the REXX implementation of the toolkit.
Idea priority Low

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